Kildare investigation begins after 'unusual activity' reported on evening of Deirdre Jacob's disappearance 

Gardaí pictured searching a wooded area at Taggartstown near Kilcullen Co Kildare this morning. Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

New information about "unusual activity" on the evening of Deirdre Jacob's disappearance has prompted a three-week long search of a Co Kildare site, gardaí have said.

Gardaí have begun to search woodlands in Taggartstown, Co Kildare in relation to missing women in the Leinster region from the 1990s.